St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
TREAT THE ARTISTS RIGHT.
Votaries of the Muse Who Think
the Exposition Penurious.


A good deal of disgust is beginning to
be heard on all sides in regard to the
petty and unenterprising spirit evinced
by the Exposition directors in regard to
that most excellent department of the
late show-the art gallery. To the cul-
tured people OF the community it was
the one great drawing card the EXPOSE
ton had. They went again and again,
to see the pictures and nothing else,
and they do not like this idea of treat
ing these fine works of art and their
makers, in the cavalier fashion that it is
intended.
Speaking to gentleman closely and
Intimately connected with the gallery
and art subjects in general he said as
follows: ''The directors managed 10
secure splendid collection upon repre-
senting what a great market for pictures
this city was. American artists in
gathered together amounted in
value to 100000. What is the
result? There have been no sales
and the Exposition directors
swelling with their artistic taste, shove
their hands down i'll their capaciouS
pockets, smile in a complacent manner.
Sigh-ah-yes-art me boy, ye know, and
fetch up $1,000 to pay these artist gen.
tlemen, whose work has done more for
the gate receipts of the Exposition than
any thing else in the whole layout. Or
in other words, they are willing to pay
per cent. dividend among all for the
use of the pictures for the six weeks
they were here. That may be the mar
row spirit the Exposition managers take
of this matter. but it is not what Mime
apoliS people think by any means, and
the outside world should know it.
Minneapolis would like to see the
whole gallery kept here permanently if
possible. Next to this she would like
to see as many of the pictures-the best
pictures-purchased as possible, and. in
view of the thousands of dollars taken
in by the extra charge to enter the gal
TO think that that money should
have been appropriated to purchasing
pictures and defraying art expenses.
If the situation remains as it is now: if
only $1,000 be spent in purchasing pict-
ureS; if these works of art have all to
be returned to their owners and paint
erS without having had the ghost of a
chance to be sold. Minneapolis will gain
very poor name indeed in the art
world, and the Exposition people will
find their mistake too late when they
dttCilpU W StU COlICCtlOll DSIUeT, OF
nearly as good, next year"
Another phase of this subject is, Min
neapolis means to make hard race to
get both the national conventions here
next year, or at least one; therefore, i'll
the face of that, in regard to these pict-
ures, or anything else, her name down
East and through the country should be
a synonym for all that is enterprising,
generous and upright, and consequently
some steps should be Immediately taken
to set this matter of the art gallery right
in every respect.
Among the works lately finished in
Herb COnner'S studio is most excellent
portrait of W. M. Regan, the well-known
caterer and baker. The artist has man
aged to catch William Regan's face in
one of its happiest moods, and the like
ness itself is most perfect one. The
coloring of the picture is first-rate. and
in fact the whole work reflects good
deal of credit OH that versatile painter,
Herbert Conner.